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Arts & Culture, Books Issue Jul 21, 2020
The Dial’s next chapter

How one couple channeled their love for books and each other into running a business
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Books Issue, The Dial Bookshop, Heidi Zheng, Peter Hopkins, Mary Gibbons, Aaron Lippelt, bookstores, COVID, Lolita, Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong, Kim’s Convenience, Ins Choi, Fermented Vegetables, Christopher, Kirsten Shockey

Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend

Discussed: Ida B. Wells, Tom Hanks's favorite sandwich, Dessa, Jessica Hopper's friends, and the girl whose kidnapping inspired Lolita
- By Brita Hunegs, Brianna Wellen, Leor Galil, Maya Dukmasova, and Anne Elizabeth Moore
- Tags: Arts, Books, Film, Hip-Hop, Music, Ida B. Wells, Michelle Duster, Peter Sagal, Tom Hanks, Uncommon Type: Some Stories, Dessa, My Own Devices, Doomtree, Greg Kot, Jessica Hopper, José Olivarez, Night Moves, Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita, Lolita, Sally Horner, Rachel Shteir

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2015
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The Chicago Palestine Film Festival and CIMMFest highlight this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Eyes of a Thief, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago Internatonal Movies & Music Festival, Canal Zone, Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas, Ex Machina, 28 Days Later, Alex Garland, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, The Longest Ride, Nicholas Sparks, George Tillman Jr., Soul Food, True Story, Jonah Hill, James Franco, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Stephen Hopkins, The Ghost and the Darkness, Alaka Wali, Frank Tashlin, The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Mary Harron, The Notorious Bettie Pag, Orson Welles, The Trial, Nick Kroll, Adult Beginners, Roger Beebe, Andy Warhol, Dan Savage, Hump! Film Festival, Poetry on Public Television: The 1960s, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Sound of Silent Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 3, 2015
A Texan Lolita is all keyed up

Isa Giallorenzo's Street View featuring a Lolita at the Menil Collection in Houston, TX.
- By Isa Giallorenzo
- Tags: Style, Arts, womenswear, fashion, Houston, Texas, street style, lolita, Menil Collection

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
Video
Reader film editor placed on suicide watch—plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Year in Review, Film, Ben Sachs, Drew Hunt, Bridesmaids, Alan Partridge, Bad Words, Dumb and Dumber To, Top Five, Big Eyes, Tim Burton, Margaret Keane, The Gambler, Mark Wahlberg, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim, Meryl Streep, Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh, J.M.W. Turner, Pelican Dreams, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Strange Little Cat, Unbroken Angelina Jolie, Louis Zamperini, The Way He Looks, Zero Motivation, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge!, Music Box Chicago, Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975), A Clockwork Orang, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bom, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Killer’s Kiss, The Killing, Lolita, Paths of Glory, The Shining, Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 17, 2014
Video
Showdown in Cairo, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jehane Noujaim, The Square, Egyptian Revolution, Tahrir Square, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Best Offer, Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso, Geoffrey Rush, Big Bad Wolves, The Legend of Hercules, Cutthroat Island, Renny Harlin, Mortified Nation, Old Goats, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, University of Chicago Doc Films, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, George Stevens, Gunga Din, Pickwick Park Ridge, George Cukor, Little Women, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Northbrook Public Library, Andrzej Zulawski Possession, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Picasso and the Mayor, Tom Palazzolo, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2013
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Goose Island's Gillian: Can a $30 beer be worth it?

Four years after its debut as Scully, Goose Island's award-winning barrel-aged saison Gillian finally gets bottled.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Goose Island, Three Sisters, Juliet, Halia, Madame Rose, Lolita, Gillian, Scully, Gillian Anderson, X-Files, Keith Gabbett, John Laffler, Holy Dragons, Thunder in the Night, Dorsal Atlantica, Pelagodiscus Atlanticus, Video

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 9, 2013
It's the memories that matter in The North China Lover

As the nostalgic narrator, Deanna Dunagan outshines the central action in Heidi Stillman's Lookingglass Theatre Company adaptation.
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, Marguerite Duras, The North China Lover, Heidi Stillman, The Sea Wall, The Lover, French Indochina, The Lover, Alain Renais, Hiroshima Mon Amour, India Song, Lolita, Leigh Hafrey, Deanna Dunagan, Philip Roth, Nathan Zuckerman, Exit Ghost, The Ghost Writer, Daniel Ostling, Tim Chiou, Rae Gray

Film, Movie Review Apr 3, 2013
Secrets of The Shining

The documentary Room 237 reveals the hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's horror classic.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, The Killing, Room 237, Rodney Ascher, Music Box, Holocaust, Apollo 11, EMI Elstree Studios, Alexander Walker, Danny Lloyd, Stanley Hotel, Estes Park Colorado, Colorado State Archives, Stanley Kubrick, Director, Diane Johnson, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Geoffrey Cocks, The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, & the Holocaust, Walt Disney, Three Little Pigs, Timberline Lodge, Oregon, Lolita, Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut, Bill Blakemore, Julie Kearns

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2013
Weekly Top Five: We're all a little bit Spartacus—the best of Stanley Kubrick

Top five Stanley Kubrick films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Stanley Kubrick, Music Box, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, The Killing, Full Metal Jacket, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barry Lyndon, NASA, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, Eyes Wide Shut, Tom Cruise

Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2012
Audio
Weird things customers say in bookstores, another blog-based book, and Seminary Co-op on the move

Two new books on books, both based on blogs, and the Seminary Co-op gets a new home
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Books, Arts, Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores, Overlook Press, Dan Sinker, F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel, blogorrhea, This Is Not the Six Word Novel, Book Cellar, monkeys, typewriting monkeys, Jen Adams, The Books They Gave Me, Free Press, cleavage, blog, blogs, Seminary Co-op, Max Brooks, Zombie Survival Guide, Nabokov, Lolita, Plath, Milan Kundera. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Neil Gaiman, Sandman, Tolkien, Hobbit, Walker Percy, Moviegoer, William S. Burroughs, Possible Side Effects, Julia Child, Joy of Cooking, Audio

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2009
Eating elsewhere: Rita's at the West Side Market, Cleveland

Why can't we have a public market like Cleveland's?
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Cleveland, Michael Symon, Lola, Lolita, Velvet Tango Room, National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame, Rita's, olives, West Side Market

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The Dial’s next chapter

How one couple channeled their love for books and each other into running a business

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend

Discussed: Ida B. Wells, Tom Hanks's favorite sandwich, Dessa, Jessica Hopper's friends, and the girl whose kidnapping inspired Lolita

Video
The Chicago Palestine Film Festival and CIMMFest highlight this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A Texan Lolita is all keyed up

Isa Giallorenzo's Street View featuring a Lolita at the Menil Collection in Houston, TX.

Video
Reader film editor placed on suicide watch—plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
Showdown in Cairo, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
Goose Island's Gillian: Can a $30 beer be worth it?

Four years after its debut as Scully, Goose Island's award-winning barrel-aged saison Gillian finally gets bottled.

It's the memories that matter in The North China Lover

As the nostalgic narrator, Deanna Dunagan outshines the central action in Heidi Stillman's Lookingglass Theatre Company adaptation.

Secrets of The Shining

The documentary Room 237 reveals the hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's horror classic.

Weekly Top Five: We're all a little bit Spartacus—the best of Stanley Kubrick

Top five Stanley Kubrick films

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Weird things customers say in bookstores, another blog-based book, and Seminary Co-op on the move

Two new books on books, both based on blogs, and the Seminary Co-op gets a new home

Eating elsewhere: Rita's at the West Side Market, Cleveland

Why can't we have a public market like Cleveland's?

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How one couple channeled their love for books and each other into running a business

Discussed: Ida B. Wells, Tom Hanks's favorite sandwich, Dessa, Jessica Hopper's friends, and the girl whose kidnapping inspired Lolita

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Isa Giallorenzo's Street View featuring a Lolita at the Menil Collection in Houston, TX.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Four years after its debut as Scully, Goose Island's award-winning barrel-aged saison Gillian finally gets bottled.

As the nostalgic narrator, Deanna Dunagan outshines the central action in Heidi Stillman's Lookingglass Theatre Company adaptation.

The documentary Room 237 reveals the hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's horror classic.

Top five Stanley Kubrick films

Two new books on books, both based on blogs, and the Seminary Co-op gets a new home

Why can't we have a public market like Cleveland's?

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